Gardening - an Attitude Adjustments -Part 2

they can be extremely colorful, in shades of blue, gray, green and gold, plus bi-colors. And dwarf conifers provide color all year round.

A single groundcover can look better than a patchwork of plants in some areas of the yard that invite relaxing contemplation. I have one garden that consists mainly of rhododendrons and a few hostas, hellebores and heucheras, planted in a sea of sweet woodruff. It is a striking garden, quite picturesque when flowering and peaceful but pretty the rest of the gardening season. And it requires almost no work at all. The thick carpet of woodruff keeps out the weeds as well as unifying the other plants. Instead of trying to fill a space with all kinds of different plants, consider a mass planting of groundcover with a few striking accent plants. (And consider this - a groundcover can be anything that covers the grounds - so even a mass planting of hostas or lavender counts.)

As gardeners many of us have physical limitations that may at times make us feel as though we can't really garden anymore. But that doesn't have to be true. Maybe it just takes a slight change of style, and a change in our ideas about what constitutes a garden and what plants we can't live without.

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